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A. J. HAMILTON.

DUSTCOVER FOR DRA-WERS. No. 308,156. Patented Nov. 18, 1884.

%J27Mk /a I BY ATTORNEYS.

NrTED STATES PATENT V OFFICE.

ALFRED J. HAMILTON, OF BEAVERTON, OREGON.

DUST-C OVER FOR D RAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,156, dated November 18, 1884-.

I Application filed December 5, 1883. (No model.)

case that it remainsswhen the drawer is pulled out and the drawer is opened, and when the drawer is shoved back the drawer is closed again by the cover, as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a transvere section of a drawercase and a couple of drawers having covers according to my invention, the section being taken on the line 00 x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is'a section on the line pg of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a section of a drawer and part of a case, showing a modified form of the cover that may be more readily applied to drawers in use,

I propose to make covers a b c, or of other equivalent form, to wholly or partly close the top of the drawer h by tongues d or e, along or on which the corresponding grooves, for g, of the box sides and front ends will close when the drawers are shoved back into their cases h i, &c., the said covers being attached to the cases, so as to remain stationary when the drawers h are pulled out and shoved in. The said covers may close the whole of the drawer, as in Figs. 1 and 2, or only close with the front end, as represented in Fig. 3, the latter arrangement being a very simple device -to attach to the front board, 2', of drawers already in use, and being a simple angle-strip, adapted to be attached to the inside of the front board, with the edge having the tongue 6 suspended suitably for closing in the groove 9, that may be readily made in the front end of the drawer for it. In some cases it may be preferred to form the groove 9 in the drawer by attaching a piece of sheet metal upon the edge of front 7 down the back end, j, of the drawer suitably to enable the drawer to slide out and in under the cover, and making the grooves fg in the sides and the front end of the drawers.

These covers may be solid boards of the whole width of the drawer, or they may consist of a frame, as represented at the right hand of Fig. 1, which frame will, when attached to the case h, serve the same purpose, and as well as if solid.

It will be understood that my invention consists, essentially, in a frame, board, or any suitable piece attached to a bureau or other case, and having tongues adapted to pass nto grooves in the upper edge of the drawer sides and front, whereby all cracks between the drawers and case are covered or closed against the ingress of dust.

Having thus described rnyinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a case or frame, of a sliding bureau, desk, table, or.other drawer provided with the groove {1 on the inner face of its front board, and a tongued cover secured to the said frame, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a case or frame and a cover havingtongued edges and secured to said case or frame, of a sliding drawer having grooved sides and front end, to receive the tongues of the cover, substantially as here in shown and described.

ALFRED J. HAMILTON.

Witnesses:

S. M. WrLLooX, ELLA WELoH. 

